Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.